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>> BRITTIN: Wow. I think that's enough. Amazing stuff. Super packed agenda. I got a two-minute
sum up and then what's next, if I may. Do you remember when Dan came on at the beginning
and he talked about his--it was him in the elevator being told it was voice activated.
But it was fitting, wasn't it, that we started with a man shouting at technology? Kurt was
here. We got hugging each other. Some people were uncomfortable, some people were excited.
It was quite hard to tell. We'll see more later. Martha was here talking about scaling
up. Inspirational woman, actually, Martha and what she's been doing to get consumers
online and get government to get serious about this is fantastic. It's great to hear from
her and also the idea that you can get somebody online to fix up your BILLY bookcase which
I'm excited about. Guy was here, The Death of Conventional Working. He said it's over.
People like me, we respect the fax machine. We're terrified of our bosses and we hide
from the noisy production lines. The next generation don't care about any of that ***.
Old rules, fast customers, younger people, the slow down is killing it all. Guy is now
in the coffee shop business, not in the mobile phone business, get out of his way. He's got
a hotline to the PM and nuclear bombs and he likes throwing [INDISTINCT] out of the
building because they just don't get it. All of that though gets resolved. It's been an
amazing turnaround that he's achieved there. Simon was here from the Guardian with Chromosomes,
the 1202 Bible Infographic for people who can't read. Infographic is now for people
who can't be bothered to read. He had Infochimps. He had my favorite chart of the day which
was the Rick Astley histogram. Dave from What If was there. Enterprise was interrupting
efficiency, beams were interrupting various things. I can't take my eyes off of you. It
starts with you and your team. It's a contact sport. It's an experiment, create stories
and structures. It's all about people. And what a great demonstration of how courage
is easy with encouragement. I'm always going to remember that. Courage with encouragement.
Claus and Eric, why isn't there a British Amazon, eBay, Google, et cetera? It's the
wrong size country. It's the wrong size country. But it started--this started to come to it.
We called this Think Bigger. It started at that point, for me at least, to come together.
And actually, a lot of this stuff was about thinking bigger. We heard from the entrepreneurs.
We heard from Claus. We heard from Eric. It's about thinking bigger. You're better off in
Finland or the US than you are here, think bigger. And maybe that doesn't matter because
you can reach these markets, these investments and these exits. We got to do it together.
Is it going to be Stockholm, Berlin or London? Let's hope it's London. Larry's stopwatch
featured fast always beats slow. We've been on fast. Open--the Webkit speech thing, I've
not seen that. Wasn't it amazing? Just pasting in the ability to turn talk into words. That
was cool. I wish I could do that. Ideas are from everywhere. We heard a lot of failing
fast. Atticus was here with Jay, Jamil, and Nick, possibly the most diverse set of entrepreneurs
we could get together. Thank you for all of that. I thought it was interesting to listen
to what inspired them. I don't need any help. I just want to make things happen. I not mock
student essays turned into--actually, I'm passionate about helping traditional industries
survive in the 21st Century and reach new markets. What an amazing way of finding your
passion. Maybe we all should start ourselves by getting bored marking student essays. Inspiring
others and pinning down the PN from Jamil. And then we finished with the hub and smoke--hub
and spoke snail of delivery from Tom and point to point is faster with small careers. That
was fascinating. Data helps you speed up and to slow down from Robert. Ben being a designer
of smells and retreat sweets. Great. I thought the best thing in that session though was
gin and tonic as a gas, and then Moshi Monsters, an amazing success story. So, that's it for
today. I think a packed agenda, thinking bigger. Please do. It would be tempting now to just
slope off, but why not join us for a drink and a little nibble? Will you do that just
for a few minutes? Now, Dan said it's over there but actually, it's over here. We have
Google tartan scarves. How cool is that? Google tartan scarves for everybody. We have your
personalized Think Bigger book. It's empty so you can think better with big ideas. And
we're going to go through there. We have bicycles that make smoothies in the gym. We have the
Lala Lounge and video art creation potential and we have drinks. Final thing from me. The
UK is the world's number on e-commerce country and it's also the biggest country outside
of the US. We're good at this *** and it's down to all of you. And I wanted to say personally,
my job for the last five years has been helping to lead the Google team in the UK. It's been
a great pleasure getting to know all of you and working together. And hopefully we've
all contributed a little bit to the success of the UK here. It's a massive global opportunity
for us in this country as we go from the 2 billion person web to the 5 billion person
web. We're good at this ***. Let's have a go at it. Thank you very much.